clsatt Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I was looking at the wilwood brakes on ArizonaZCar. so, I started looking at other wilwood products avalable and noticed on all of the instalation pages on thier site they never mentioned a brake booster/master vac. question is, has anyone run a 240/260/280 on just a master cylinder without the booster? how does it feel, how does it perform? thanks, chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsatt Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 any thoughts, is it a matter of taste or is there some benefit to it? just trying to educate my self, thanks, chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario_82_ZXT Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 I know he recommends a specific master cylinder for his products. I've driven a Z with no booster and I didn't think it was bad at all, I don't know how it would be with all the AZ Zcar products but if my booster fails I'm definitely making a spacer to delete it (stock brakes now though...). Mario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsatt Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 thats exactly what I was thinking. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom'sZ Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 I'm almost certain some zcars came with manual brakes (no booster) The wildwood ones are made to be manual. If your booster died though, you would want to swap a manual master cylinder in, not just delete the booster. The ratios are different. Pedal effort will be much higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsatt Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 I probably won't do it for a while, I have a new booster on the way. it is something I'd be interested in doing somewhere down the line. thanks, chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryb Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Perhaps this will work wothout a booster? ...its sure looks familiar! http://www.wilwood.com/PDF/ds439.pdf and http://www.wilwood.com/PDF/ds439.pdf I too would like to eliminate the booster to further clean up underhood appearances. Im also installing the AZC 6 pots front and 4 pot rear and would like to ensure lots of brake pressure. I just emailed Wilwood to find out if runs with or without and will report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunar240z Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 do a search for dual master cylinders. theres things you might find interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayolives Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I'm using ArizonaZCar's race brakes with Wilwood master cylinders and pedals without a booster. The pedal is very firm and makes contact near the "top". It does not have the normal pedal travel you may be accustomed to in the OEM setup. The entire system works very great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumaNoZeta Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 Is getting a brand new Wilwood master cylinder the only option for switching to manual brakes or is there an OEM set up from another car, or if mom'sZ was correct about other Z cars having them, what would they be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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